Spring Semester Final Review Quiz

Which al-Qaeda leader planned the 9/11 attacks on the United States?

• Saddam Hussein

• Abu Musab al Zarqawi

• Osama bin Laden

• Anwar Sadat

How did Eisenhower respond to the situation in Little Rock, Arkansas?

• He took the Governor to the Supreme Court.

• He sent federal troops to enforce the integration of the school.

• He had Congress implement laws requiring desegregation.

• He escorted the black students into the school himself.

What was the Nazis' "Final Solution" for the Jews?

• Death Camps

• Urban Ghettos

• Work Camps

• Deportation

What did American astronauts do in 1969?

• Discovered the size and temperature of the sun.

• Orbited earth with Soviet cosmonauts.

• Landed on the moon.

• Determined the speed of light.

Why was rationing used during WWII?

• to encourage people to buy War Bonds

• to limit or curb Americans' consumption of food and fuel

• to encourage people to plant Victory Gardens

• to control prices of American goods

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in all the following areas EXCEPT...

• housing

• employment

• public accomodations

• public schools

The Manhattan Project was a government agency that helped to build the first...

• rocket

• satellite

• atomic bomb

• hydrogen bomb

Joined the Nation of Islam in 1952 to promote black nationalism

Rejected nonviolence as a strategy to bring about change

Converted to orthodox Islam in 1964 and reached out to people of all races

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Mohammed Ali

• Elijah Muhammed

• Malcolm X

An Arms Race is...

• an event in which two nations race to the brink of war, but avoid declaring war

• a competition between nations to achieve a more powerful weapons arsenal

• a war in which nations destroy another nation's weapons supply

• a war that only includes nuclear weapons

What military strategy did the US use in the Pacific during WWII?

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Kamikaze Strikes

• Island Hopping

• Weather Balloons